Sugar Kills More New Zealanders Than Drugs – TOP Policy Push
TOP says sugar is driving a public health crisis — and calls for a tax to curb obesity and diabetes.
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Grenfell Tower – an Epitaph to Epic Failure
Only when inequality, deregulation, austerity and privatisation are reversed, will justice be done for the Grenfell dead.
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Let’s have open slather on the 1990s
I warmed to Jim Bolger considerably after his Mea Culpa moment. His government indeed was responsible for the unfortunate gutting of the unions and the massive redistribution to the wealthy under National’s failed trickle down theory.
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All that is wrong with NZ politics in one simple devastating chart – it’s time to riot
…when 2 NZers have more than the poorest 30% of the entire nation, the time for debate is over and the time to riot is upon us.
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Auckland shows government’ policy failures writ large
Auckland is a two speed city ‘Real Housewives of Auckland’ at one end and desperately poor families living in cars in the middle of winter at the other. The affluent of Auckland are immune to the price system- it just doesn’t matter what things cost. At the other end, lives are spent economising on miserable and insufficient disposable incomes where every last 10 cents and every price rise matters.
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Auckland action against poverty – Uni research highlights deficiencies in Govt job policies
New university research highlights the grave deficiencies in the ‘work first’ approach to welfare so beloved of both National and…
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Flexible fund to help homeless welcomed – Salvation Army
Social Housing Minister the Hon. Paula Bennett’s announcement of $9 million in a flexible fund to support people in severe…
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CYPF Amendment Bill must provide better for children – CPAG
More must be done to improve services for children in order to fulfil Government’s stated commitment to the United Nations…
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Inequality kills
The Oxfam report says that just 62 people own as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population. This number has fallen from 388 five years ago. The wealth of those 62 people increased by 44% in those five years to US$1.76 trillion. The rich are certainly getting richer.
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Why relative poverty matters too
In New Zealand, as in most developed countries, poverty is measured relative to 60% of the weekly median income. The question remains: why measuring relative poverty matters when it does not necessarily relate to hardship the way absolute poverty does.